World History II SOL Review

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World History II SOL Review

• Use these slides like flash cards to study for
  the SOL test
• WHII.11 WHII.12

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Outbreak of World War II

• What were the major causes for WWII?
• Aggression by totalitarian powers.
• Germany, Italy, Japan
• Nationalism
• Failures of WHAT treaty?
• Treaty of Versailles
• Appeasement
• Weaknesses of League of Nations
• Isolationism and Pacifism

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Major Events of WWII

• What event marks the beginning of WWII?
• Germanys invasion of Poland
• Germanys invasion of what allied nation gave
  them control of both East and West Europe?
• France

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A World Divided

• Who were the Allied Powers?
• Great Britain
• France
• Soviet Union (after Germany broke their
  non-aggression pact and invaded)
• The United States

• Who were the Axis Powers?
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• USSR (until Germany broke their non-aggression
  pact and invaded)

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Major Events of WWII

• How did Germany void the Nazi-Soviet
  Non-Aggression Pact?
• By invading the Soviet Union, August 1943
• What event brought the US into the war?
• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941
• What was the major blitzkrieg attack of Britain?
• The Battle of Britain RAF were able to keep the
  Luftwaffe at bay.

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Major Events of WWII European Theater

• Hitler invades Soviet Union (1941) Operation
  Barbarossa
• Battle of Stalingrad (1942) German troops
  weakened and pushed back to the west.
• What do we call the Allied invasion of Europe?
• D-Day, Invasion of Normandy (June 6, 1944) the
  Allies liberated France
• The war in Europe officially came to an end May
  8, 1945, known as _____.
• VE Day Hitler committed suicide in April,
  1945 and Germany agreed to unconditional
  surrender

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Major Events of WWII Pacific Theater

• What battle of the Pacific was a major turning
  point in the war (for the Allies)
• The Battle of Midway
• How did the war in Japan end?
• Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and
  Nagasaki
• Which American President made the decision to
  drop the bombs?
• Harry S. Truman

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What was The Holocaust?

• The Nazi controlled killing of more than 6
  million Jews
• How did the Nazis first suspend the rights of
  Jews?
• Nuremberg Laws
• How did the Germans exterminate the Jews?
• Concentration Camps poison gas
• The Holocaust is an example of the physical
  extermination of a people what is this called?
• Genocide

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What are other examples of 20th-Century Genocide?

• WHO did the Turkish (Ottoman) government kill
  millions of during WWI??
• Armenians
• WHO is responsible for the murder 1 million of
  his own people in Cambodia??
• Pol Pot
• WHO engineered the mass killing of Tutus in
  Rwanda?
• Hutus

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Post War International Organizations

• WHAT organization replaced the ineffective League
  of Nations?
• United Nations
• WHAT is the name of the strong executive branch
  of the UN?
• Security Council with 5 permanent members
• WHY did the UN create the World Bank?
• Help stabilize world economies

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Rebuilding Germany

• HOW did the Allies attempt to de-Nazify Germany?
• Divided the occupation of Germany amongst the 4
  allies
• WHAT was the result?
• A western pro-democracy Germany in the West and
  an eastern-communist Germany in the East
• WHERE were Nazis tried for crimes against
  humanity?
• Nuremberg Trials

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Rebuilding Europe

• WHAT does USSR gain at the conferences of Tehran,
  Yalta and Potsdam?
• Allowed to dominate Eastern Europe
• WHAT was the result?
• An iron curtain falls between East and West
  Europe (Churchill)
• WHAT was the US plan for rebuilding Europe and
  stopping the spread of Communism?
• Marshall Plan

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Rebuilding Japan

• Tojo is executed for war crimes
• Hirohito allowed to keep throne, but no longer
  divine ruler
• American troops occupy Japan under General
  MacArthur they can have NO military
• RESULT?
• Japan transforms into major global economic power

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What is the COLD WAR?

• Competition between the two new post-war super
  powers.
• WHO are these super powers?
• The US (Truman) and the USSR (Stalin)
• WHAT Eastern European countries became the USSRs
  buffer states?
• Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary,
  Poland and Romania

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COLD WAR alliances and policies

• WHAT military alliance did the West form after
  WWII?
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• What did the Eastern Bloc countries form in
  response?
• Warsaw Pact
• As the US and her Allies became concerned about
  communism, they came up with what policy?
• The Truman Doctrine of Containment

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COLD WAR cold conflicts

• WHAT did the USSR do in opposition to the
  creation of a pro-West German state?
• The Berlin Blockade
• What was the Wests response?
• Berlin Airlift
• As the US and her Allies became concerned about
  communism, they came up with what policy?
• The Truman Doctrine of Containment
• How does USSR prevent people from fleeing East
  Berlin to the West?
• The Berlin Wall the symbol of the Cold War

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Cold War in Asia

• WHAT COUNTRY?
• 1949 Civil War
• Communists led by Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
• Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek who was
  forced to flee to Taiwan
• Tension still exists between the Communist
  country and Taiwan
• CHINA

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Cold War HOT Conflicts

• WHAT conflict?
• Above the 38th Parallel was Communist, below was
  pro-west
• The North invaded the South in an attempt to
  spread communism
• The US sent troops to repel invaders
• It ended in a stalemate.
• THE KOREAN WAR still divided

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Cold War HOT Conflicts

• WHAT conflict?
• The US was concerned about this conflict because
  of the Domino Theory
• Ho Chi Minhleader of Communist Nationalists
• LBJ escalated US involvement in the conflict
  Nixon removed the troops
• The entire country falls to communism
• VIETNAM CONFLICT all communist

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Cold War HOT Conflicts

• WHAT country?
• Communist Leader Fidel Castro, supported by the
  Soviet Union (Khrushchev)
• CIA trained former citizens attempted to
  overthrow Castro at the Bay of Pigs
• Soviet missiles found in the country prompted
  fear of a nuclear war!
• Soviet leader Khrushchev backed down to Kennedys
  demands
• CUBA Cuban Missile Crisis

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How did the Cold War End?

• Soviet economy failed
• Mikhail Gorbachevs (1985-1991) reforms
• Ban intermediate-range missiles
• Perestroika economic reforms
• Glasnost openness
• What symbolizes the end of the Cold War?
• Fall of the Berlin Wall